Method and apparatus for generating signal for low latency in wireless communication system

ABSTRACT

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating a signal for low latency in a wireless communication system. The method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, for a communication device generating a situation-reporting signal for low latency and transmitting the signal to a base station in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: generating the situation-reporting signal on the basis of a pre-set, specific situation recognized by the communication device; and transmitting the generated situation-reporting signal to the base station, wherein the situation-reporting signal may be generated so as to have a subcarrier spacing which is a pre-set number of times larger than a subcarrier spacing of a legacy communication system, the pre-set number being an integer.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, andmore particularly, to a method for generating a signal for short latencyin a wireless communication system, and an apparatus supporting thesame.

BACKGROUND ART

Along with the recent development of wireless communication technology,wireless communication has been extended its application from humancommunication to device-to-device communication or the Internet ofthings. Accordingly, it is expected that all things around us will beinterconnected through a wireless communication network and controlledwirelessly in the near future.

If such an era is defined as a networked society, the requirements of awireless network design for building the networked society may includedevice-to-device communication without human intervention,ultra-connectivity that may reduce a latency between devices, andultra-short latency/high-reliability transmission between devices.

Device-to-device communication or the Internet of things may find itsapplications in a variety of fields around us. Particularly, it may beused for building an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) being one ofservices available through convergence between a wireless communicationtechnology and a vehicle as well as in industry automation or autonomousvehicles.

The services available through convergence between a wirelesscommunication technology and a vehicle may include self-driving ofvehicles, provisioning of high-reliability real-time trafficinformation, and provisioning of a high-quality wireless communicationenvironment to a passenger in a vehicle.

Conditions required to realize such a service through convergencebetween a wireless communication technology and a vehicle vary dependingon the property of the provided service. In regard to a wirelesscommunication-based vehicle safety service, if the requirements ofaccurate recognition and instantaneous indication of an emergencysituation are considered for the service, a wireless communicationtechnology that enables ultra-short latency and high-reliabilitytransmission should be applied. If a high-quality wireless communicationenvironment is to be provided to a vehicle passenger, a wirelesscommunication technology that maintains a uniform channel quality in anysituation is preferably applied.

More specifically, the wireless communication-based vehicle safetyservice may refer to a service in which when it is determined that avehicle is likely to face emergency due to an external or internalfactor or a device of a vehicle is abnormal, the emergency or theabnormal state of the device is notified to a vehicle user through anin-vehicle communication network so that the vehicle user mayefficiently handle the problem.

The in-vehicle communication network may be divided largely into avehicle internal network and a vehicle external network. A vehicleinternal network called In Vehicle Network (IVN) is a wireless/wiredcommunication network between sensors, electronic devices, or devicesinside a vehicle. The IVN is a technology used to notify a vehicle userof an emergency situation or an abnormal part of the vehicle, asdescribed above.

Besides the IVN technology, the vehicle communication network may alsoinclude a vehicle external network, that is, an out-vehicle network fromthe perspective of a vehicle.

The vehicle safety service using the foregoing IVN is provided to adriver by a specific indication through an audio, a gauge, or the likein a vehicle. However, this information is perceivable only to thedriver of the vehicle.

Since the driver of a following vehicle or a nearby vehicle has no wayto perceive the above information, the following vehicle or the nearbyvehicle may cause an accident to the vehicle, or the vehicles togethermay be subject to a secondary accident even though the driver of thevehicle takes an appropriate action with the vehicle safety servicebased on the IVN.

To overcome the problem, a vehicle safety service using a vehicleexternal network as well as the vehicle safety service using an IVN iscontinuously studied.

That is, the vehicle safety service using a vehicle external network hasbeen introduced to provide a vehicle safety service using a vehiclecommunication network technology in relation to other nearby vehicles.Vehicle external networks may be classified largely into Vehicle toInfrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V).

V2I refers to communication infrastructure between a vehicle and itsadjacent Base Station (BS), and V2V refers to communicationinfrastructure between a vehicle and another vehicle.

If V2I is used, a vehicle may receive traffic information from anadjacent BS, and transmit location information about the vehicle oremergency information sensed by the vehicle to the adjacent BS. The BSand other vehicles share the emergency situation through the transmittedinformation.

If V2V is used, a vehicle may receive traffic information from a nearbyvehicle and may also exchange emergency information sensed by eachvehicle.

The foregoing vehicle safety services using a vehicle external network,V2I and V2V may be used mainly for the purpose of sharing informationbetween a vehicle and another object. However, to transmit informationto be shared, initial access is performed at each communication. Thus, along latency is incurred by the initial access.

Accordingly, there is a need for a method for reducing a latencyincurred by the initial access. Thus, it is necessary to generate asignal for short latency in a wireless communication system.

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

An object of the present invention devised to fulfill the aboveconventional need is to provide a method for generating a short-latencysignal in a wireless communication system.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method forgenerating a short-latency signal having a subcarrier spacing largerthan a subcarrier spacing of a legacy communication system by an integertimes.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method forgenerating a short-latency signal that may reuse parameters of a legacysystem.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method fortransmitting a generated short-latency signal to another device during adownlink transmission period.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatussupporting the above methods.

It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the objectsthat could be achieved with the present invention are not limited towhat has been particularly described hereinabove and the above and otherobjects that the present invention could achieve will be more clearlyunderstood from the following detailed description.

Technical Solution

In one aspect of the present invention, a method for generating asituation report signal for short latency and transmitting the generatedsituation report signal to a Base Station (BS) by a communication devicein a wireless communication system includes generating the situationreport signal based on a predetermined specific situation perceived bythe communication device, and transmitting the generated situationreport signal to the BS. The situation report signal is generated tohave a subcarrier spacing larger than a subcarrier spacing of a legacycommunication system by a predetermined integer times.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, thepredetermined integer may be 16.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, the situationreport signal may include one or more new symbols and a Cyclic Prefix(CP) within one symbol period of the legacy communication system.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, the number ofthe new symbols and a length of the CP may be determined based on thesubcarrier spacing and a time-domain period of the situation reportsignal.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, the number ofthe new symbols may be 16, and the CP length may be 250 ns.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, thetransmission may further include transmitting the situation reportsignal to a neighbor device already connected to the BS.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, if thesituation report signal is generated based on a predetermined emergencysituation, the transmission of the situation report signal to theneighbor device may include transmitting the situation report signal tothe neighbor device using a downlink transmission period.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, thetransmission of the situation report signal to the neighbor device usinga downlink transmission period may include transmitting the situationreport signal to the neighbor device in a predetermined symbol of eachsubframe within the downlink transmission period.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, if thesituation report signal is generated based on a predetermined emergencysituation, the transmission may include transmitting the situationreport signal by exclusively using one or more symbol periods of asubframe of the legacy communication system.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, the situationreport signal may be capable of using a parameter of the legacy system.

In another aspect of the present invention, a communication device forgenerating a situation report signal for short latency and transmittingthe generated situation report signal to a BS in a wirelesscommunication system includes a Radio Frequency (RF) unit including atransmitter and a receiver, and a processor connected to the transmitterand the receiver, for supporting communication. The processor controlsgeneration of the situation report signal based on a predeterminedspecific situation perceived by the communication device, andtransmission of the generated situation report signal to the BS. Thesituation report signal is generated to havea subcarrier spacing largerthan a subcarrier spacing of a legacy communication system by apredetermined integer times.

In the communication device according to the present invention, thepredetermined integer may be 16.

In the communication device according to the present invention, theprocessor may control generation of the situation report signal byincluding, in the situation report signal, one or more new symbols and aCP within one symbol period of the legacy communication system.

In the communication device according to the present invention, theprocessor may determine the number of the new symbols and a length ofthe CP based on the subcarrier spacing and a time-domain period of thesituation report signal.

In the communication device according to the present invention, thenumber of the new symbols may be 16, and the CP length may be 250 ns.

In the communication device according to the present invention, theprocessor may control transmission of the situation report signal to aneighbor device already connected to the BS.

In the communication device according to the present invention, if thesituation report signal is generated based on a predetermined emergencysituation, the processor may control transmission of the situationreport signal to the neighbor device using a downlink transmissionperiod.

In the communication device according to the present invention, theprocessor may control transmission of the situation report signal to theneighbor device in a predetermined symbol of each subframe within thedownlink transmission period.

In the communication device according to the present invention, if thesituation report signal is generated based on a predetermined emergencysituation, the processor may control transmission of the situationreport signal by exclusively using one or more symbol periods of asubframe of the legacy communication system.

In the communication device according to the present invention, thesituation report signal may be capable of using a parameter of thelegacy system.

Advantageous Effects

According to the present invention, a short-latency signal can begenerated in a wireless communication system.

According to the present invention, a short-latency signal having asubcarrier spacing larger than a subcarrier spacing of a legacy systemby an integer times can be generated, and thus more time samples can beacquired. The resulting increase of the success probability of energydetection can reduce a latency.

According to the present invention, a short-latency signal that canreuse parameters of the legacy system can be generated. Therefore, theshort-latency signal can also be used in the legacy system at the sametime, while minimizing a change or an influence that might otherwise becaused.

Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will beset forth in part in the description which follows and in part willbecome apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art uponexamination of the following or may be learned from practice of theinvention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention may berealized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in thewritten description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a furtherunderstanding of the invention, illustrate embodiments of the inventionand together with the description serve to explain the principle of theinvention. However, the technical features of the present invention arenot limited to the specific drawings, and a mew embodiment may beimplemented by combining features illustrated in each drawing. In thedrawings, reference numerals denote structural elements. In thedrawings:

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication environmentbetween an in-vehicle communication device and a Base Station (BS) in awireless communication system to which the present invention isapplicable;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating physical channels and a general signaltransmission method using the physical channels in a 3^(rd) GenerationPartnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) system to which thepresent invention is applicable;

FIG. 3(a) is a diagram illustrating the architecture of control-planeradio interface protocols between a communication device and an evolvedNode B (eNB) in a wireless communication system to which the presentinvention is applicable;

FIG. 3(b) is a diagram illustrating the architecture of user-plane radiointerface protocols between the communication device and the eNB in thewireless communication system to which the present invention isapplicable;

FIG. 4(a) is a diagram illustrating a downlink radio frame structure towhich the present invention is applicable;

FIG. 4(b) is a diagram illustrating a downlink radio frame structure towhich the present invention is applicable;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary downlink slot defined bysymbols and subcarriers;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an uplink subframe structure to whichthe present invention is applicable;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a signal flow for a contention-basedrandom access procedure;

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a signal flow for anon-contention-based random access procedure;

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating the concept of latency in the 3GPP LTEsystem to which the present invention is applicable;

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating the concept of control-plane latencyin the architecture of radio interface protocols between a communicationdevice and an eNB;

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating the concept of user-plane latency inthe architecture of radio interface protocols between a communicationdevice and an eNB;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating ashort-latency signal in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of an apparatus for generating ashort-latency signal in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the present invention.

BEST MODE

Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of thepresent invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings. The detailed description, which will be given below withreference to the accompanying drawings, is intended to explain exemplaryembodiments of the present invention, rather than to show the onlyembodiments that can be implemented according to the present invention.

The following detailed description includes specific details in order toprovide the full understanding of the present invention. However, itwill be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present inventionmay be implemented without such specific details. For instance, althoughthe following descriptions are made in detail on the assumption that amobile communication system corresponds to 3GPP LTE system, they areapplicable to other random mobile communication systems except uniquefeatures of the 3GPP LTE system.

Occasionally, to avoid obscuring the concept of the present invention,structures and/or devices known to the public may be skipped orrepresented as block diagrams centering on the core functions of thestructures and/or devices.

In the present disclosure, when it is said that a part “comprises” or“has” a component, this signifies the presence of one or more othercomponents, not excluding the presence of the one or more othercomponents, unless otherwise specified.

Also, the term “-unit” means a unit of executing at least one functionor operation. A unit may be achieved in hardware, software, or acombination of both. Further, “a or an”, “one”, and a similar relatedterm may cover both singular and plural referents, unless otherwisespecified or otherwise dictated by the context.

In addition, specific terms as used in embodiments of the presentdisclosure are provided to help understanding of the present invention.Unless otherwise defined, the terms and words including technical orscientific terms used in the following description and claims may havethe same meanings as generally understood by those skilled in the art.The terms may be replaced with other terms without departing from thescope and spirit of the present invention.

The term as used in the present disclosure, first or second may be usedto describe various components, not limiting the components. Theseexpressions are used to distinguish one component from anothercomponent. For example, a first component may be referred to as a secondcomponent and vice versa without departing from the scope of the presentdisclosure.

Reference will now be made in detail to preferred embodiments of thepresent invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. Thedetailed description, which will be given below with reference to theaccompanying drawings, is intended to explain exemplary embodiments ofthe present invention, rather than to show the only embodiments that canbe implemented according to the invention.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication environmentbetween an in-vehicle communication device and a Base Station (BS) in awireless communication system to which the present invention isapplicable.

Referring to FIG. 1, the wireless communication system to which thepresent invention is applicable may include a BS 100 and one or morevehicles 110, 120, 130, and 140 each including a communication device.

For the convenience of description, the vehicles 110, 120, 130, and 140each including a communication device will be defined as and referred toas communication devices in the present disclosure.

According to the present invention, the BS 100 is a terminal node of anetwork communicating directly with the communication devices 110, 120,130, and 140. Also, a specific operation described as performed by theBS 100 may be performed by an upper node of the BS 100 undercircumstances in the present invention.

Namely, it is apparent that, in a network comprised of a plurality ofnetwork nodes including the BS 100, various operations performed forcommunication with the communication devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 maybe performed by the BS 100, or network nodes other than the BS 100.

In the present invention, the BS 100 may also be called a fixed station,a Node B, an evolved Node B (eNode B or eNB), an Access Point (AP), orthe like.

The communication devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 may also be calledterminals, Mobile Stations (MSs), Mobile Subscriber Stations (MSSs),Subscriber Stations (SSs), Advanced Mobile Stations (AMSs), WirelessTerminals (WTs), Machine-Type Communication (MTC) devices,Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices, Device-to-Device (D2D) devices, or thelike.

The embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by at leastone of wireless communication systems including an Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802 system, a 3rd GenerationPartnership Project (3GPP) system, a 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)system, a 3GPP LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system, and a 3GPP2 system, andsupported by standard specifications disclosed for at least one of thewireless access systems.

Further, a legacy system is defined as an already defined system in thepresent invention. Accordingly, the 3GPP LTE system is a legacy systemfrom the viewpoint of the 3GPP LTE-A system. For example, a legacy UEmay be interpreted as a UE supported by the legacy system. According tothe present invention, the legacy UE is conceptually included in a UE ora communication device, for the convenience of description.

The embodiments of the present invention may be applied to variouswireless access systems such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA),Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Time Division Multiple Access(TDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), SingleCarrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and so on.

CDMA may be implemented as a radio technology such as UniversalTerrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) or CDMA2000. TDMA may be implemented asa radio technology such as Global System for Mobile communications(GSM)/General packet Radio Service (GPRS)/Enhanced Data Rates for GSMEvolution (EDGE).

OFDMA may be implemented as a radio technology such as IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), etc.UTRA is a part of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).3GPP LTE is a part of Evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using E-UTRA, adopting OFDMAfor Downlink (DL) and SC-FDMA for Uplink (UL). LTE-A is an evolution of3GPP LTE.

In a wireless communication system, a communication device may receiveinformation from an eNB on DL, and transmit information to the eNB onUL.

The information transmitted and received by the communication deviceincludes data and various types of control information. There are manyphysical channels according to the types and usages of informationtransmitted or received by the communication device.

FIG. 2 illustrates physical channels and a general signal transmissionmethod using the physical channels, which are used in a 3GPP LTE systemto which the present invention is applicable.

When a communication device is powered on or enters a new cell, thecommunication device performs initial cell search. The initial cellsearch involves acquisition of synchronization with an eNB (S201).

For this purpose, the communication device synchronizes its timing tothe eNB and acquires information such as a cell Identifier (ID) byreceiving a Primary Synchronization Channel (P-SCH) and a SecondarySynchronization Channel (S-SCH) from the eNB. Then, the communicationdevice may acquire information broadcast in the cell by receiving aPhysical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) from the eNB. During the initial cellsearch, the communication device may monitor a DL channel state byreceiving a Downlink Reference Signal (DL RS).

After the initial cell search, the communication device may acquire moredetailed system information by receiving a Physical Downlink ControlChannel (PDCCH) and receiving a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)based on information of the PDCCH (S202).

Meanwhile, when the communication device initially accesses the eNB orhas no radio resources for signal transmission, the communication devicemay perform a random access procedure with the eNB (S203 to S206).

As described later in detail with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8, to performthe random access procedure, the communication device may transmit aspecific sequence as a preamble on a Physical Random Access Channel(PRACH) (S203), and may receive a response message to the preamble on aPDCCH and a PDSCH associated with the PDCCH (S204).

In the case of contention-based random access except for handover, thecommunication device may additionally perform a contention resolutionprocedure including transmission of an additional PRACH (S205) andreception of a PDCCH signal and a PDSCH signal corresponding to thePDCCH signal (S206).

After the above procedure, the communication device may receive a PDCCHand/or a PDSCH from the eNB (S207) and transmit a Physical Uplink SharedChannel (PUSCH) and/or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) to theeNB (S208), in a general UL/DL signal transmission procedure.

Control information that the communication device transmits to orreceives from the eNB includes a DL/UL Acknowledgement/NegativeAcknowledgement (ACK/NACK), a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI)/PrecodingMatrix Index (PMI)/Rank Indicator (RI), and so on.

In the 3GPP LTE system, the communication device may transmit controlinformation such as the above-described CQI/PMI/RI on a PUSCH and/orPUCCH.

FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b) illustrate a control-plane protocol stack and auser-plane protocol stack in a radio interface protocol architecturebetween a communication device and an eNB in a wireless communicationsystem to which the present invention is applicable.

Referring to FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b), the radio interface protocol isdivided horizontally into a physical layer, a data link layer, and anetwork layer, and vertically into a user plane for data transmissionand a control plane for signaling.

The protocol layers of FIG. 3 can be divided into an L1 layer (firstlayer), an L2 layer (second layer), and an L3 layer (third layer) basedon the lower three layers of the Open System Interconnection (OSI)reference model widely known in communication systems.

The control plane of FIG. 3(a) is a path in which the communicationdevice and the network transmit control messages to manage calls, andthe user plane of FIG. 3(b) is a path in which data generated from anapplication layer, for example, voice data or Internet packet data istransmitted. Now, a description will be given of each layer of thecontrol plane and the user plane.

A PHYsical (PHY) layer at Layer 1 (L1) provides information transferservice to its higher layer, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. ThePHY layer is connected to the MAC layer via transport channels. Thetransport channels deliver data between the MAC layer and the PHY layer.Meanwhile, data is transmitted on physical channels between the PHYlayers of a transmitter and a receiver. The physical channels aremodulated in OFDM and use time and frequency as radio resources.

The MAC layer at Layer 2 (L2) provides service to its higher layer, aRadio Link Control (RLC) layer via logical channels. The RLC layer at L2supports reliable data transmission. RLC functionality may beimplemented in a function block of the MAC layer. In this case, the RLClayer may not exist. A Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer atL2 performs header compression to reduce the amount of unnecessarycontrol information and thus efficiently transmit Internet Protocol (IP)packets such as IP version 4 (IPv4) or IP version 6 (IPv6) packets.

A Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer at the lowest part of Layer 3 (orL3) is defined only on the control plane. The RRC layer controls logicalchannels, transport channels, and physical channels in relation toconfiguration, reconfiguration, and release of Radio Bearers (RBs). AnRB refers to a service provided at L2, for data transmission between thecommunication device and the network. For this purpose, the RRC layersof the communication device and the network exchange RRC messages witheach other. If an RRC connection has been established between the RRClayers of the communication device and the network, the communicationdevice is in RRC connected mode. Otherwise, the UE is in RRC idle mode.

A Non-Access Stratum (NAS) layer above the RRC layer performs functionssuch as session management, mobility management, etc.

A cell covered by an eNB is set to one of the bandwidths of 1.25, 2.5,5, 10, and 20 MHz and provides DL or UL transmission service to aplurality of communication devices in the bandwidth. Different cells maybe set to different bandwidths. DL transport channels used to deliverdata from the E-UTRAN to UEs include a Broadcast Channel (BCH) carryingsystem information, a Paging Channel (PCH) carrying a paging message,and a Shared Channel (SCH) carrying user traffic or a control message.DL multicast or broadcast traffic or control messages may be transmittedon a DL SCH or a separately defined downlink Multicast Channel (MCH). ULtransport channels used to deliver data from the communication device tothe network include a Random Access Channel (RACH) carrying an initialcontrol message and an uplink SCH carrying user traffic or a controlmessage.

Logical channels that are defined above transport channels and mapped totransport channels include a Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH), a PagingControl Channel (PCCH), a Common Control Channel (CCCH), a MulticastControl Channel (MCCH), and a Multicast Traffic Channel (MTCH).

FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) illustrates DL radio frame structures to which thepresent invention is applicable.

In a cellular OFDM radio packet communication system, UL/DL data packettransmission is performed in units of a subframe. One subframe isdefined as a predetermined time period including a plurality of OFDMsymbols.

In the 3GPP LTE standard, a frame structure supporting OFDMA and SC-FDMAtransmission has been designed. The frame structures was so designed asto operate in a frequency band of 700 MHz to 6 GHz, and its main targetfrequency band is 2 GHz.

For the frame structure, an operating bandwidth is up to 20 MHz, anactual transmission bandwidth is 18 MHz, and a sampling frequency is setto 30.72 MHz. A null carrier is set in the remaining part between thetransmission bandwidth and the sampling frequency. A subcarrier spacingis set to 15 kHz, and there are 1200 subcarriers for the transmissionbandwidth.

In regard to time-domain parameters, a sampling time is determined to bethe reciprocal 32.55208333 ns of the sampling frequency. That is, a timeinterval is set so that about 30,000 samples may be acquired within lms.An OFDM symbol duration is determined to be the reciprocal 66.67 μs ofthe subcarrier spacing. A guard time is set to about 4 μs, and an OFDMsymbol including a guard time is about 70 μs long.

[Table 1] and [Table 2] summarize the above description.

TABLE 1 Frequency domain parameters Rel. 8 LTE Subcarrier spacing (kHz)df 15 FFT size Nfft 2048 Sampling Frequency (MHz) Fs 30.72 ChannelBandwidth (MHz) C-BW 20 Transmission Bandwidth (MHz) T-BW 18 # of RE Nre1200

TABLE 2 Time domain parameters Rel. 8 LTE Sampling time (ns) Ts = 1/Fs32.55208333 # of samples in 1 ms 1(ms)/Ts(ns) 30720 OFDM duration (us)Tu = 1/df 66.66666667 CP length (us) Tcp 4.6875 CP overhead (%)Tcp/(Tcp + Tu) 6.569343066 OFDM symbol (us) Tofdm 71.35416667

Meanwhile, the frame structure designed to support OFDMA and SC-FDMAtransmission in the 3GPP LTE standard may include a type 1 radio framestructure applicable to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD), illustratedin FIG. 4(a) and a type 2 radio frame structure applicable to TimeDivision Duplexing (TDD), illustrated in FIG. 4(b).

Referring to FIG. 4(a) first, a DL radio frame includes 10 subframes,each subframe including two slots in the time domain.

A time required for transmitting one subframe is defined as aTransmission Time Interval (TTI), and a TTI is defined in units of abasic resource allocation unit for data transmission. Accordingly, a TTIis set to lms, and called a subframe. One subframe may include 14 or 12OFDM symbols according to the Cyclic Prefix (CP) length of the OFDMsymbols.

For example, one subframe may be 1 ms long and one slot may be 0.5 mslong. One slot may include a plurality of OFDM symbols in the timedomain and a plurality of Resource Blocks (RBs) in the frequency domain.

Since the 3GPP LTE system uses OFDMA in DL, an OFDM symbol representsone symbol interval. An OFDM symbol may also be called an SC-FDMA symbolor a symbol interval. An RB is a resource allocation unit and includes aplurality of contiguous subcarriers in one slot.

The number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may vary according to aCP configuration. There are an extended CP and a normal CP. For example,if the OFDM symbols are configured with the normal CP, one slot mayinclude seven OFDM symbols. On the other hand, if the OFDM symbols areconfigured with the extended CP, the length of one OFDM symbol isincreased and thus one slot includes fewer OFDM symbols than a slot withthe normal CP. In case of the extended CP, for example, the number ofOFDM symbols included in one slot may be 6. If a channel state isunstable, as is the case with a User Equipment (UE) moving fast, theextended CP may be used in order to further reduce inter-symbolinterference.

In case of the normal CP, one slot includes seven OFDM symbols, and thusone subframe includes 14 OFDM symbols. Then, the first two or three OFDMsymbols of each subframe may be allocated to a PDCCH, and the remainingOFDM symbols may be allocated to a PDSCH. In the case of the extendedCP, one slot includes six OFDM symbols and thus one subframe includes 12OFDM symbols.

Referring to FIG. 4(b), a type 2 radio frame includes two half-frames,each including five subframes, a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS), aguard period (GP), and an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS), and onesubframe includes two slots.

The DwPTS is used for initial cell search, synchronization, or channelestimation. The UpPTS is used for channel estimation and UL transmissionsynchronization with a UE at an eNB. The GP cancels interference causedin UL by multi-path delay of a DL signal. Meanwhile, one subframeincludes two slots irrespective of the radio frame types.

A DL synchronization signal is transmitted in two OFDM symbols, every 5ms. If one OFDM symbol is 70 μs long, the DL synchronization signal istransmitted for 140 μs, with a periodicity of 5 ms.

The DL synchronization signal uses 72 subcarriers of a center frequency,and 10 out of the 72 subcarriers are used as a null carrier.

However, the afore-described radio frame structures are purelyexemplary. Accordingly, the number of subframes per radio frame, thenumber of slots per subframe, and the number of symbols per slot may bechanged in various manners.

FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary DL slot including symbols andsubcarriers.

Referring to FIG. 5, each OFDM symbol is configured to include a normalCP, and a DL slot includes a plurality of OFDM symbols in the timedomain and a plurality of RBs in the frequency domain.

While it is described by way of example that one DL slot includes 7 OFDMsymbols and one RB includes 12 subcarriers, the present invention is notlimited thereto.

Each element in the resource grid of FIG. 5 is referred to as a ResourceElement (RE). For example, RE a(k,l) represents an RE located at ak^(th) subcarrier in an 1^(th) OFDM symbol. In the normal CP case, oneRB includes 12×7 REs (in the extended CP case, one RB includes 12×6REs). Since a subcarrier spacing is 15 kHz, one RB is about 180 kHz inthe frequency domain. N^(DL) represents the number of RBs, and may bedetermined according to a DL transmission bandwidth configured by eNBscheduling.

FIG. 6 illustrates a UL subframe structure to which the presentinvention is applicable.

Basically, a frame for UL data transmission has the same configurationas a DL frame. However, the UL frame differs from the DL frame in termsof the positions of signals or channels included in the frame (also interms of bandwidth, subcarrier spacing, subframe length, and so on). ULchannels include a data channel, a control channel, a Data DemodulationReference Signal (DMRS), a Channel State Information Reference Signal(CSI-RS), and an RACH.

The DMRS is transmitted across two OFDM symbols in a subframe, and theCSI-RS is transmitted in the last OFDM symbol of the subframe.

The RACH is multiplexed with the data channel and the control channel intime and frequency. Time-frequency resources are allocated in a datachannel region and repeated periodically.

Referring to FIG. 6, a UL subframe may be divided into a control regionand a data region in the frequency domain. A PUCCH carrying UplinkControl Information (UCI) is allocated to the control region.

A PUSCH carrying user data is allocated to the data region. To maintainthe property of a single carrier, a UE does not transmit a PUSCH and aPUCCH simultaneously.

A PUCCH for a UE is allocated to an RB pair in a subframe. The RBs ofthe RB pair occupy different subcarriers in two slots. Thus it is saidthat the RB pair allocated to the PUCCH is frequency-hopped over a slotboundary.

FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate an exemplary contention-based random accessprocedure and an exemplary non-contention-based random access procedure,respectively.

Referring to FIGS. 7 and 8, FIG. 7 illustrates a contention-based randomaccess procedure, and FIG. 8 illustrates a non-contention-based randomaccess procedure. That is, random access procedures may be divided intothe contention-based random access procedure and thenon-contention-based random access procedure.

In the contention-based random access procedure, a communication device100 randomly selects a random access preamble to access a BS 200.

Therefore, a plurality of communication devices may select the samerandom access preamble and transmit the random access preamblesimultaneously to the eNB. That's why contention resolution is neededlater.

In contrast, according to the non-contention-based random accessprocedure as illustrated in FIG. 8, the BS 200 performs a random accessprocedure using a random access preamble uniquely allocated to thecommunication device 100. Therefore, the communication device 100 mayperform the random access procedure without colliding with othercommunication devices.

That is, the biggest difference between the contention-based randomaccess procedure and the non-contention-based random access procedurelies in that a random access preamble is or is not dedicated to onecommunication device.

In the non-contention-based random access procedure, since acommunication device uses a dedicated random access preamble allocatedto it, the communication device does not contend (or collide) withanother communication device. On the other hand, in the contention-basedrandom access procedure, a communication device is likely to contendwith another communication device because the communication device usesa random access preamble randomly selected from among one or more randomaccess preambles.

Herein, contention refers to attempting a random access procedure usingthe same random access preamble in the same resources by two or morecommunication devices.

With reference to FIG. 7 again, operations of a communication device andan eNB in the contention-based random access procedure will be describedbelow in detail.

(1) Transmission of First Message (S701)

First, the communication device may select a random access preamblerandomly from a set of random access preambles indicated by systeminformation or a Handover Command, select PRACH resources, and transmitthe selected random access preamble in the selected PRACH resources(S701).

(2) Reception of Second Message (S702)

After transmitting the random access preamble in step S701, thecommunication device attempts to receive its random access responsewithin a random access response reception window indicated in the systeminformation or the Handover Command by the eNB (S702).

More specifically, random access response information may be transmittedin a Medium Access Control Packet Data Unit (MAC PDU), and the MAC PDUmay be transmitted on a PDSCH. To receive information on the PDSCHsuccessfully, the communication device preferably monitors a PDCCH.

That is, the PDCCH preferably carries information about a communicationdevice to receive the PDSCH, information about time and frequencyresources of the PDSCH, and the transport format of the PDSCH.

Once the communication device succeeds in receiving the PDCCH directedto it, the communication device may receive a random access responsenormally on the PDSCH based on information of the PDCCH. The randomaccess response may include a Random Access Preamble Identifier (RAPID),a UL Grant indicating UL radio resources, a temporary Cell Radio NetworkTemporary Identifier (C-RNTI), and a Time Advance Command (TAC).

The reason for including the RAPID in the random access response is toindicate a communication device to which the UL Grant, the temporaryC-RNTI, and the TAC are valid because one random access response mayinclude random access preamble information for one or more communicationdevices.

It is assumed that the communication device selects an RAPID matchingits selected random access preamble in step S702. Thus, thecommunication device is capable of receiving the UL grant, the temporaryC-RNTI, and the TAC in the random access preamble response.

(3) Transmission of Third Message (S703)

Upon receipt of the random access response valid to the communicationdevice, the communication device processes the information included inthe random access preamble separately. That is, the communication deviceapplies the TAC and stores the temporary C-RNTI. In addition, thecommunication device may store data to be transmitted in response toreception of the valid random access response in a third buffer.

Meanwhile, the communication device transmits data (i.e. a thirdmessage) to the eNB based on the received UL Grant (S703).

The third message should include an ID of the communication device. Inthe contention-based random access procedure, although the eNB may notidentify communication devices that perform the random access procedure,the eNB needs to identify the communication devices for subsequentcontention resolution.

Inclusion of the ID of the communication device in the data isconsidered in two methods. In one method, if the communication devicehas a valid cell ID that has been allocated by the cell before therandom access procedure, the communication device transmits the cell IDin a UL signal based on the UL Grant. On the other hand, if thecommunication device does not have a valid cell ID allocated before therandom access procedure, the communication device transmits its uniqueID (e.g. System Architecture Evolution-Temporary Mobile SubscriberIdentity (S-TMSI) or Random ID).

In general, the unique ID is longer than the cell ID. If thecommunication device has transmitted the data based on the UL Grant, theUE starts a Contention Resolution (CR) timer.

(4) Reception of Fourth Message (S704)

After transmitting the data including its ID based on the UL Grantincluded in the random access response, the communication device awaitsreception of a command for contention resolution from the eNB. That is,the communication device attempts PDCCH reception in order to receive aspecific message (S704).

The communication device may receive a PDCCH in two methods. Asdescribed before, if a third message including a cell ID has beentransmitted in response to the UL Grant, the communication deviceattempts to receive a PDCCH using its cell ID. If a third messageincluding the unique ID of the communication device has been transmittedin response to the UL Grant, the communication device attempts toreceive a PDCCH using the temporary C-RNTI included in the random accessresponse.

In the former case, upon receipt of a PDCCH using the cell ID beforeexpiration of the CR timer, the communication device ends the randomaccess procedure, considering that the random access procedure has beencompleted successfully.

In the latter case, upon receipt of a PDCCH using the temporary C-RNTIbefore expiration of the CR timer, the communication device checks datadelivered on a PDSCH indicated by the PDCCH. If the data includes theunique ID, the communication device ends the random access procedure,considering that the random access procedure has been completedsuccessfully.

Meanwhile, if the contention resolution based on transmission of thethird message and reception of the fourth message is not successful, thecommunication device may restart the random access procedure byselecting another random access preamble. Accordingly, the communicationdevice may receive a second message from the eNB, configure a thirdmessage for contention resolution, and transmit the third message to theeNB.

Meanwhile, referring to FIG. 8, compared to the contention-based randomaccess procedure illustrated in FIG. 7, the BS 200 allocates a dedicatedrandom access preamble to the communication device 100 (S801).

The communication device 100 transmits the random access preambleallocated by the BS 200 in step S801 to the eNB, with initialtransmission power or retransmission power determined in the same manneras described before with reference to FIG. 7 in the random accessprocedure (S802).

Therefore, the communication device may perform the random accessprocedure without colliding with another communication device, comparedto the contention-based random access procedure described with referenceto FIG. 7.

If the communication device 100 receives from the BS 200 a random accessresponse message in response to the random access preamble transmittedin step S802, a connection is established between the communicationdevice 100 and the BS 200 (S803).

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating the concept of latency in a 3GPP LTEsystem to which the present invention is applicable.

As described before, to support a service requiring real-timeinformation sharing and control based on information sharing betweenobjects in a wireless communication system, initial access should beperformed at each communication. Due to the resulting increase oflatency caused by the initial access, there is a need for ashort-latency technique.

Main services requiring such a short-latency technique include on-linegaming, M2M gaming, sensor-based alarm, remote control, and so on. Theshort-latency technique is also required for an Intelligent TransportSystem (ITS) service to which especially sensor-based alarm and remotecontrol techniques having strict requirements for short latency aremapped.

In the current ITS standard, initial access is performed at eachcommunication for information sharing, thereby causing most latency.

If the LTE technology is applied to a service including the ITS or thelike, a latency involved in the initial access is about 100 ms. Morespecifically, if the delays of the user plane and the control plane inFDD are included, a latency of about 66 to 106 ms occurs.

More specifically, FIG. 9 illustrates initial access-incurred latency inthe case where the LTE technology is applied to a main service requiringa short-latency technique including the ITS. As illustrated in FIG. 9,the initial access-incurred latency may take place in many parts.

As illustrated in FIG. 9, the initial access-incurred latency includes adelay for RACH scheduling, a processing delay for scheduling grantallocation of an eNB, and a processing delay for RRC connection setup onthe side of a communication device including a UE, whereas the initialaccess-incurred latency includes a processing delay for processing anRACH preamble received from the UE, a processing delay for processing anRRC connection request, and a processing delay for connection setup witha Mobility Management Entity (MME) on the side of the eNB. There is aprocessing delay for a connection request received from the eNB on theside of the MME. All these delays may be included in the initialaccess-incurred latency.

The initial access-incurred latency may be divided into user-planelatency and control-plane latency.

As illustrated in FIG. 10, the user-plane latency is a latency that maybe produced in relation to data transmission, in the state where aconnection has been established between a source being a datatransmission entity and a destination being a data reception entity. Theuser-plane latency may include a UE processing delay including headercompression, ciphering, and RLC/MAC processing, a resource allocationand physical layer transmission delay (L1 processing and TTI subframealignment at the transmitter and the receiver), an HARQ retransmissiondelay, an eNB processing delay, a delay on an S1 interface between aneNB and a Serving Gateway (S-GW), and a processing delay of the S-GW.

As illustrated in FIG. 11, the control-plane latency refers to a latencythat may occur when a communication device transitions from an idlestate to an active state (a connection setup latency). The control-planelatency may include L1, L2, and L3 procedures of the eNB and thecommunication device, a transmission delay, and retransmission forreliable transfer.

However, an actual delay of a system may be dependent on system load andradio propagation conditions.

Meanwhile, if the LTE technology is applied to a service including theITS as described before, the initial access-incurred latency is about100 ms. In FDD, if a user-plane delay (2 to 15 ms) and a control-planedelay (1 to 15 ms) are included, the initial access-incurred latency isabout 66 to 106 ms.

However, if the afore-described V2I and V2V technologies are applied inthis case, the latency is decreased to about 20 ms, which will bedescribed in detail with reference to [Table 3] below.

TABLE 3 Delay component Delay value UL + DL transmission time 2 msBuffering time (0.5 × 2 × 0.5 × 1 ms = 1 ms   transmission time)Retransmission 10% 2 × 0.1 × 8 ms = 1.6 ms UL scheduling request   0.5 ×5 ms = 2.5 ms UL scheduling grant 4 ms Evaluated communication 4 msdevice delay Evaluated eNB delay 4 ms Core network 1 ms

As noted from [Table 3], in the case where the V2I and V2V technologiesare applied, if resource scheduling is performed, the latency may bereduced to 20.1 ms (about 20 ms). If resources to be used arepredetermined, a delay caused by a UL scheduling request and grant maybe excluded. As a consequence, the latency may be reduced to 13.6 ms.

That is, a speed of perceiving a situation such as an imminent collisionor traffic congestion is about 20 ms in a service including the ITS thatrecognizes a situation in real time. In other words, it may be judgedthat a communication speed for safety driving that enables a vehicle toavoid an imminent collision is not ensured with the technology of up to4^(th) Generation (4G).

Therefore, a 5^(th) Generation (5G) network to which the presentinvention is applicable seeks to decrease the real-time situationperception speed to 1/1000 (about 0.1 ms), including a time taken forthe communication device to perceive a specific situation and transmitinformation about the situation to the eNB (the network, and so on) sothat the eNB may perceive the situation.

An exemplary method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention proposed in thiscontext will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 12.

FIG. 12 is an exemplary flowchart illustrating a method for generating ashort-latency signal in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the present invention.

In general, a procedure for perceiving a predetermined situation andreporting the situation to an eNB (a network, and so one) by acommunication device so that the eNB may perceive the situation may beperformed as follows.

1) A first communication device transmits a signal indicating asituation. 2) Upon detection of the signal, a second communicationdevice perceives the situation. 3) The second communication device thentransmits a situation report signal to an eNB. 4) Finally, the eNBperceives the situation.

On the assumption that the LTE technology is introduced to theprocedure, the first communication device transmits a DL synchronizationsignal, and upon detection of the DL synchronization signal, the secondcommunication device perceives a corresponding situation and transmits aPRACH or Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) to report the situation to theeNB. The eNB perceives the situation by receiving the PRACH or SRS.

If a latency that may occur in the above procedure is calculated, atleast about 140 μs (one symbol (70 μs) of a DL synchronization signaland one symbol (70 μs) of a UL RS) is taken for the signal transmission.Considering a processing delay (detection and transmission preparation)of the communication device and a time taken for the eNB to receive thesignal and perceive the situation based on the signal, the latency isfurther increased. If a collision situation is assumed, the increase offalse alarms caused by detection errors decreases overall reliability ofthe system as well as increases the latency.

Accordingly, since a new transmission method and a new signal design arerequired to satisfy a latency within 0.1 ms mentioned before withreference with FIG. 11, the present invention proposes a method forgenerating a short-latency signal in a wireless communication system.

Referring to FIG. 12, a communication device in the wirelesscommunication system may receive a DL signal from another communicationdevice, and perceive a predetermined specific situation based on thereceived DL signal (S1201).

The specific situation means a situation that may be predefined,including an emergency such as an urgent accident.

Meanwhile, upon perception of the predetermined specific situation, thecommunication device may generate a situation report signal based on theperceived situation (S1202).

The feature of the present invention for satisfying a latency of 0.1 msor shorter as described before may be applied in generating thesituation report signal.

More specifically, the method for generating a short-latency signal in awireless communication system according to the present invention isbased on the assumption that a symbol duration satisfies the followingtwo conditions.

First, an OFDM symbol of 5 μs or shorter is generated.

Second, an OFDM symbol is generated to be compatible (or duality) with alegacy system.

The IEEE 802.11 physical layer is designed to have a transmissionbandwidth of 20 MHz and 300-kHz subcarriers. In the IEEE 802.11 physicallayer, an OFDM symbol has a symbol duration of 4 μs and includes a totalof 64 time samples.

If more time samples can be secured, the success probability of energydetection may be increased. If a sampling time is set to be shorter,more time samples may be secured.

Therefore, in order to satisfy the first of the two symbol durationconditions, that is, the condition that an OFDM symbol of 5 μs orshorter is generated, it is necessary to set a subcarrier spacing to be300 kHz or larger, and to set a sampling time to result in 64 or moretime samples in the method for generating a short-latency signal in awireless communication system according to the present invention.

Besides, if compatibility with the legacy system is achieved as providedin the second of the two symbol duration conditions, lots of parametersof the legacy system may be reused.

As described before, the 3GPP LTE frame is designed to have a subcarrierspacing of 15 kH or 30 kHz, and a sampling frequency of 30.72 MHz. Asampling time is the reciprocal of the sampling frequency, thus32.55208333 ns.

In the method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention, the subcarrierspacing is set to 240 kHz larger than the conventional subcarrierspacing 15 kHz or 30 kHz, so that the OFDM symbol duration is equal toor less than 5 μs.

In this case, the signal has a period of 4.16 μs in the time domain. Forthe conventional 15-kHz subcarrier spacing, one period is 66.67 μs inthe time domain. Given a subcarrier spacing of 240 kHz as in the presentinvention, an about 1/16-times shorter spacing corresponds to oneperiod, which is a time during which new 16 OFDM symbols may be includedwithin the conventional OFDM symbol duration.

Also, if a new OFDM symbol is designed to have a CP of about 250 ns, 16new OFDM symbols may be included in the conventional one OFDM symbolperiod.

In other words, the situation report signal may be generated byincluding one or more new symbols and CPs in one symbol period of thelegacy communication system in step S1201. The number of the new symbolsand the CP length may be determined in consideration of the subcarrierspacing and time-domain period of the situation report signal.

For example, the number of the new symbols may be determined to be 16,and the CP length may be determined to be 250 ns. These values aredetermined in consideration of the subcarrier spacing of 240 kHz and thetime-domain period 4.16 ns of the situation report signal.

In addition, if the situation report signal is designed to be compatiblewith the 3GPP LTE system as a legacy system, a great part of channelsand transmission methods defined in the 3GPP LTE system may be reused inthe same frequency band as that of the 3GPP LTE system. Above allthings, if a samling rate is matched, the computation compelxity ofhardware may be reduced.

Accordingly, if the situation report signal is designed as describedabove according to the present invention, the wireless communication mayoperate compatibly with the legacy system at the same time, whileminimizing the effect on the legacy system. For example, a part of theOFDM symbols of the conventional subframe may readily be usedexclusively for new OFDM symbols.

Meanwhile, a time perid of the legacy system may be allocated for anopertion of the new system in the method for generating a short-latencysignal in a wireless communication system according to the presentinveniton.

Specifically, if various configuration parameters of the legacy systemare resued and new OFDM symbols are arranged in the conventional OFDMsymbol period, as described before, specific OFDM symbols of the legacysystem may be readily configured as a resource allocation period of newOFDM symbols.

In the legacy system, a subframe includes 14 or 12 OFDM symbolsaccording to a CP length. A PDCCH transmission period spans from OFDMsymbol 1 to OFDM symbol 4, and a PDSCH transmission period spans fromOFDM symbol 2 to OFDM symbol 14 in a DL subframe. CRSs are transmittedin OFDM symbols 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, and 12, and DMRSs are transmitted in OFDMsymbols 6, 7, 13, and 14. A PSS and an SSS are transmitted evey 5 ms, inOFDM symbols 6 and 7. A PBCH is transmitted every 10 ms, in OFDM symbols8, 9, 10, and 11.

If an OFDM symbol is to be used exclusively with minimal impact on thelegacy system, a period other than a period used for transmission ofsignificant informaiton (ACK/NACK, a synchorniation signal, systeminformation, and so one) may be selected. For example, OFDM symbol 12may be exclusively used.

However, according to an embodiment of the present invention, if anotification is to be transmitted in a predetermined specific situationsuch as a traffic accident, any OFDM symbol period of a subframe may beused exclusively as a time period for transmission of new OFDM symbols.

That is, if the situation report signal is generated based on thepredetermined specific situation, the situation report signal may betransmitted exclusively in any one or more OFDM symbols of a subframe ofthe legacy communication system.

Referring to FIG. 12 again, the communication device may transmit thesituation report signal generated in the afore-described method to theeNB (S1203). While not shown in FIG. 12, the communication device mayalso transmit the situation report signal to a neighbor device (anothercommunication device or the like) connected to the eNB.

A frequency band for communication between a communication device and aneNB (device-to-infrastructure communication) is generally configured ina UL carrier or in a UL subframe. Also, a frequency band forcommunication between communication devices (D2D communication) isconfigured in a UL carrier or in a UL subframe.

However, the situation report signal may be transmitted in both a DLcarrier and a UL carrier or both a DL subframe and a UL subframeaccording to the situation of the signal in the present invention.

That is, if the situation report signal is generated based on thepredetermined specific situation, the situation report signal may betransmitted to the neighbor device (another communication device or thelike) during a DL transmission period as well as during a ULtransmission period.

For example, if the situation report signal is configured to use a DLcarrier or a DL subframe even for communication between communicationdevices in a situation where an accident vehicle is discovered andnotified or in an emergency situation, the situation report signal maybe transmitted in a DL carrier or a DL subframe.

More specifically, if it is assumed that every communication device isconnected to an eNB, the communication device acquires systeminformation and grant information for data transmission from the eNB byreceiving a DL signal from the eNB. For this purpose, the communicationdevice continuously performs a DL reception operation.

On the other hand, if a UL carrier or a UL subframe is allocated forcommunication between communication devices, the communication devicelistens a signal during a UL period, only in a specific situation.

Therefore, if an emergency signal is to be transmitted to communicationdevices, a DL transmission period in which the communication devicesgenerally receive signals may be used, thereby increasing the successprobability of signal transmission, as in the embodiment of the presentinvention.

However, if a DL transmission period is used unconditionally, the signaltransmission in the DL transmission period may affect the legacy system.Therefore, if a DL transmission period is exclusively used, when tostart and discontinue transmission may be set in the present invention.

That is, transmission to a neighbor device (another communication deviceor the like) during the DL transmission period may be performed in apredetermined specific symbol of each subframe within the DLtransmission period.

For example, the situation report signal may be transmitted by exclusiveusing a small number of OFDM symbols of a subframe and then thetransmission may be discontinued. Subsequently, the situation reportsignal may be transmitted in the next subframe, using only the smallnumber of OFDM symbols.

Further, it is assumed that a few classes of signals are predeterminedso that various situations may be recognized immediately just by signaldetection in the method for generating a short-latency signal in awireless communication system according to the present invention. Theclasses of signals may be determined according to transmission power,symbol durations, transmission periods, and the like.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of an apparatus for generating ashort-latency signal in a wireless communication system according to anembodiment of the present invention.

While a one-to-one communication environment between the communicationdevice 100 and the BS 200 is shown in FIG. 13, a communicationenvironment may be built between a plurality of communication devices orbetween a plurality of communication devices and a BS.

In FIG. 13, the communication device 100 may include a Radio Frequency(RF) unit 110 with a transmitter 111 and a receiver 112, a processor120, and a memory 130.

The processor 120 and the memory 130 control overall communicationoperations including signal processing, layer processing, and so on.Further, the RF unit 110, the processor 120, and the memory 130 may beconnected to one another.

The RF unit 110 of the communication device 100 may include thetransmitter 111 and the receiver 112. The transmitter 111 and thereceiver 112 may be configured to transmit signals to and receivesignals from the BS 200 or other devices.

The processor 120 may be configured to be operatively connected to thetransmitter 111 and the receiver 112 of the RF unit 110 and controlsignal transmission and reception of the transmitter 111 and thereceiver 112 to and from the BS 200 and other devices. Also, theprocessor 120 may subject a transmission signal to various processes andtransmit the processed signal to the transmitter 111, and may process asignal received through the receiver 112.

When needed, the processor 120 may store information included in anexchanged message in the memory 130. The communication device 100 havingthe above-described configuration may perform the afore-describedmethods according to various embodiments of the present invention.

An RF unit 210 including a transmitter 211 and a receiver 212 in the BS200 is configured to transmit signals to and receive signals from thecommunication device 100. A process 220 of the BS 200 may be configuredto be operatively connected to the transmitter 211 and the receiver 212and control signal transmission and reception of the transmitter 211 andthe receiver 212 to and from other devices including the communicationdevice 100.

Also, the processor 220 may subject a transmission signal to variousprocesses and transmit the processed signal to the transmitter 211, andmay process a signal received through the receiver 212.

When needed, the processor 220 may store information included in anexchanged message in a memory 230. The BS 200 having the above-describedconfiguration may perform the afore-described methods according tovarious embodiments of the present invention.

The processors 120 and 220 of the communication device 100 and the BS200 instruct (e.g., control, adjust, and manage) operations of thecommunication device 100 and the BS 200. The processors 120 and 220 maybe connected respectively to the memories 130 and 230 capable of storingprogram code and data. The memories 130 and 230 may store an OperatingSystem (OS), applications, and general files, while being connected tothe processors 120 and 220.

The processors 120 and 220 of the present invention may be calledcontrollers, microcontrollers, microcomputers, and the like. Meanwhile,the processors 120 and 220 may be implemented in hardware, firmware,software, or a combination thereof

In a firmware or software configuration, the processors 120 and 220 maybe implemented in the form of modules, procedures, functions, or thelike performing the above-described functions or operations. Softwarecode may be stored in the memories 130 and 230 and executed by theprocessors 120 and 220. The memories 130 and 230 may be located at theinterior or exterior of the communication device 100 and the BS 200 andmay transmit and receive data to and from the processors 120 and 220 viavarious known means.

If the embodiments of the present invention are implemented in hardware,the processors 120 and 220 may include Application Specific IntegratedCircuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital SignalProcessing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), or the like, which are configured toimplement the present invention.

Meanwhile, the above-described method may be written as acomputer-readable program and implemented using a computer-readablemedium in a general-purpose digital computer. A data structure used inthe method may be recorded on the computer-readable medium by variousmeans. It is to be understood that program storage devices available tostore a computer code executable to perform various methods of thepresent invention include temporal media such as carriers or signals.The computer-readable medium includes a storage medium such as amagnetic storage medium (e.g., Read Only Memory (ROM), floppy disk, andhard disk) or an optical reading medium (e.g., compact disk-read onlymemory (CD-ROM) or digital versatile disk (DVD)).

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention maybe carried out in other specific ways than those set forth hereinwithout departing from the spirit and essential characteristics of thepresent invention. The above embodiments are therefore to be construedin all aspects as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of theinvention should be determined by the appended claims and their legalequivalents, not by the above description, and all changes coming withinthe meaning and equivalency range of the appended claims are intended tobe embraced therein.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

The method for generating a short-latency signal in a wirelesscommunication system according to the present invention is applicable tovarious wireless communication systems using a signal generation method.

1. A method for generating a situation report signal for short latencyand transmitting the generated situation report signal to a Base Station(BS) by a communication device in a wireless communication system, themethod comprising; generating the situation report signal based on apredetermined specific situation perceived by the communication device;and transmitting the generated situation report signal to the BS,wherein the situation report signal is generated to have a subcarrierspacing larger than a subcarrier spacing of a legacy communicationsystem by a predetermined integer times.
 2. The method according toclaim 1, wherein the predetermined integer is
 16. 3. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the situation report signal includes oneor more new symbols and a Cyclic Prefix (CP) within one symbol period ofthe legacy communication system.
 4. The method according to claim 3,wherein the number of the new symbols and a length of the CP aredetermined based on the subcarrier spacing and a time-domain period ofthe situation report signal.
 5. The method according to claim 4, whereinthe number of the new symbols is 16, and the CP length is 250 ns.
 6. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein the transmission further comprisestransmitting the situation report signal to a neighbor device alreadyconnected to the BS.
 7. The method according to claim 6, wherein if thesituation report signal is generated based on a predetermined emergencysituation, the transmission of the situation report signal to theneighbor device comprises transmitting the situation report signal tothe neighbor device using a downlink transmission period.
 8. The methodaccording to claim 7, wherein the transmission of the situation reportsignal to the neighbor device using a downlink transmission periodcomprises transmitting the situation report signal to the neighbordevice in a predetermined symbol of each subframe within the downlinktransmission period.
 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein if thesituation report signal is generated based on a predetermined emergencysituation, the transmission comprises transmitting the situation reportsignal by exclusively using one or more symbol periods of a subframe ofthe legacy communication system.
 10. The method according to claim 1,wherein the situation report signal is capable of using a parameter ofthe legacy system.
 11. A communication device for generating a situationreport signal for short latency and transmitting the generated situationreport signal to a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system,the communication device comprising; a Radio Frequency (RF) unitincluding a transmitter and a receiver; and a processor connected to thetransmitter and the receiver, for supporting communication, wherein theprocessor controls generation of the situation report signal based on apredetermined specific situation perceived by the communication device,and transmission of the generated situation report signal to the BS, andwherein the situation report signal is generated to have a subcarrierspacing larger than a subcarrier spacing of a legacy communicationsystem by a predetermined integer times.
 12. The communication deviceaccording to claim 11, wherein the predetermined integer is
 16. 13. Thecommunication device according to claim 11, wherein the processorcontrols generation of the situation report signal by including, in thesituation report signal, one or more new symbols and a Cyclic Prefix(CP) within one symbol period of the legacy communication system. 14.The communication device according to claim 13, wherein the processordetermines the number of the new symbols and a length of the CP based onthe subcarrier spacing and a time-domain period of the situation reportsignal.
 15. The communication device according to claim 14, wherein thenumber of the new symbols is 16, and the CP length is 250 ns.
 16. Thecommunication device according to claim 11, wherein the processorcontrols transmission of the situation report signal to a neighbordevice already connected to the BS.
 17. The communication deviceaccording to claim 16, wherein if the situation report signal isgenerated based on a predetermined emergency situation, the processorcontrols transmission of the situation report signal to the neighbordevice using a downlink transmission period.
 18. The communicationdevice according to claim 17, wherein the processor controlstransmission of the situation report signal to the neighbor device in apredetermined symbol of each subframe within the downlink transmissionperiod.
 19. The communication device according to claim 11, wherein ifthe situation report signal is generated based on a predeterminedemergency situation, the processor controls transmission of thesituation report signal by exclusively using one or more symbol periodsof a subframe of the legacy communication system.
 20. The communicationdevice according to claim 11, wherein the situation report signal iscapable of using a parameter of the legacy system.